Currently, there are a lot of sound and fury about health care in the United States. Much of it focuses on the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. The Act was the law of the land for years.

However, because many of its key provisions were not directly affecting Americans, it was a topic of conversation, but he had little direct impact on the majority of the people.


Fast forward today and Obamacare is much people. In October, launched HealthCare.gov and quickly crashed. Millions of people tried to buy health insurance using the platform, but could not. Worse still, Healthcare.gov had serious safety problems that may have exposed the users early private health information to hackers.

For many, Obamacare and its emphasis that require companies and individuals to purchase insurance, it represents the future of health care in the United States. But while Obamacare is certainly important, there are many innovative, government officials and organizations working to transform the health and medical care in meaningful ways.

Although this work receives press limited, paying close attention to is essential if you want to really understand what the future of health seem both in the United States and around the world. Then we focus on three critical areas where scientific research, data and computing power are joining to quickly change how people think, you receive and provide care in the future. Many experts categorized the issues and trends which I'll discuss below in the areas of health information technology, health 2.0 and digital health.

GENETICS

In mid-2013, Angelina Jolie published an essay in the New York Times announced that it decided to have breasts removed based on a genetic test that indicates that it was at high risk of developing breast cancer in the future.

Jolie test ignited a debate about whether it is appropriate to undergo radical surgery to reduce the chances of developing potentially or contracting a disease.

More recently, personal genetic testing company 23andMe further raised the profile of genetics when it began offering its DNA testing kits for $99 and launched an advertising campaign of large scale by promoting their products.

Began shortly after the campaign, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent a letter to 23andMe asking him to halt its tests marketing kits because of questions about whether the results were accurate, could cause people to undergo unnecessary medical procedures or stop taking medications.

However, while the experience of Jolie with genetic testing and the controversy surrounding 23andMe attracted great media coverage, people have paid less attention to the other forms genetics will transform health and medical care.

For example, IBM has predicted that genetic information will be used to help doctors diagnose the disease, select drugs and much more. A combination of powerful computers and better techniques of DNA analysis will make this possible in the near future.

For those interested in learning more about how genetics influence how I think about our individual health, "The decision tree" of Thomas Goetz provides an introduction technical and attractive to the topic along with reflections on genetic testing how will influence how we manage our health in the near future. Another book focused on this topic is Dr. "The creative destruction of medicine" of Eric Topol.

BIG DATA

Data are becoming the driving force behind the economy's health. A range of new businesses, Governments, software developers and even individual physicians are collecting large amounts of information, or "Big Data" about how people their health, such as if they are taking medications as prescribed, exercise and much more.

Now, powerful computers, such as IBM Watson, are helping people to use health data in a variety of ways, including:
Help physicians to take the drugs that are most likely to work on individual patientsProactively contact with people who are at risk of a life-threatening depressive episode so that patients can receive the help they need.
Despite the growing importance of health data, some people have considered carefully how this information will be used, or misuse. Data will be used to "separate" us to eat more healthily or take drugs? Or companies will use this information to limit our ability to purchase certain types of insurance?

Those interested in learning more about the role that it plays in our lives, including health data must be read by Eric Siegel "predictive analytics: the power to predict who Will Click, buy, lie, or die."

THE SOCIAL WEB

Susannah Fox, Pew Research Center, has called the Web and social media like Facebook sites, some of the most important innovations in health. While digital future health trends such as genetics and Big Data get much attention, the simple act of allowing people to talk to each other is transformative and highly important.

Today, in the United States and around the world, people are being asked take more responsibility for their care - both financially and in terms of interacting with physicians and other healthcare providers. Traditionally, we have focused on how people use the Web as a source of information. Internet will be much more important at present and increasingly in the future years. For example:
People actively use the Web to provide each other with the emotional and moral support that is especially important for caregivers and navigating them the new landscape (i.e. Obamacare) health insurance many actively use the Web to find less expensive care, top quality physicians and morePatients are using digital health (Internet technologies(, social networks, mobile devices and more) to start, finance, and even carry out their own medical research
It is important to remember that the future of health is much more than who is paying for it. I hope that this guide will help you to anticipate some of the important upcoming changes in health care in the United States and around the world.
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